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Painted wooden houses under palms in Key West, Key West
Key WestPainted wooden houses under palms in Key West
The City of Arts and Sciences, Valencia
ValenciaThe City of Arts and Sciences

Photos: Key West by Dominik Gryzbon, Pexels License; Valencia by Francesco Ungaro, Pexels License.

Key West or Valencia?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Key West for

  • nature and the outdoors

What lies behind each score is written up on Key West’s own page.

Choose Valencia for

  • day trips
  • prices
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Valencia’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Key West 60, Valencia 78: Valencia leads by 18 points.
Food & drink. Key West 45, Valencia 74: Valencia leads by 29 points.
Culture & sights. Key West 40, Valencia 68: Valencia leads by 28 points.
Nightlife. Key West 62, Valencia 66: Valencia leads by 4 points.
Nature & outdoors. Key West 62, Valencia 60: Key West leads by 2 points.
Day trips. Key West 28, Valencia 70: Valencia leads by 42 points.
Good for families. Key West 40, Valencia 75: Valencia leads by 35 points.
Getting around. Key West 62, Valencia 76: Valencia leads by 14 points.
Shopping & style. Key West 30, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 27 points.
Affordability. Key West 15, Valencia 57: Valencia leads by 42 points.
Live music & performing arts. Key West 38, Valencia 55: Valencia leads by 17 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Key West 40, Valencia 42: Valencia leads by 2 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Key West and Valencia.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Key West
44match

Wins on nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

Valencia
Best match
65match

Wins on day trips and prices with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Key West in July

32 °Cdaytime high
27 °Cnight-time low
84 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
30 °Csea
14 hdaylight a day

Valencia in July

30 °Cdaytime high
22 °Cnight-time low
7 mmrain in the month
10 hsunshine a day
25 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Key West's temperatures are measured 69 km from the centre, at Key West Airport.

Key West has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Key West: 1991-2020 normals, Key West Airport (69.1 km from centre). Valencia: 1991-2020 normals, Valencia (1.6 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureKey WestValencia
Official language-Spanish
CurrencyUS Dollar (USD)Euro (EUR)
SocketsAB120 V, 60 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideRightRight
Time zoneUTC-5, UTC-4 in summerUTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number911112
Elevation4 m15 m
Main airportKey West International Airport (EYW)2 km from centre24 non-stop destinationsValencia Airport (VLC)9 km from centre109 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year11 days13 days

By the numbers

MeasureKey WestValencia
City population26,444840,792
People per km²1,4076,242
Museums within 10 km745
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km02
Swim season, months above 21 °C12 months5 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.